Motor road vehicle headlamp



Oct. 23, 1934.

C. D. BURNEY MOTOR ROAD VEHICLE HEADLAMP Original Filed Aug. 10, 1929 Patented Oct. 23, 1934 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

Divided and this application December 22, 1931, Serial No. 582,607.

In Great Britain September 6, 1928 3 Claims. (Cl. 240-71) This invention relates to head lamps for motor road vehicles, the invention consisting in an improved method of arranging the head lamps inside the bothr portion of the vehicle at the front 5 portion thereof.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which:

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the front portion of a motor road vehicle fitted with head lamps constructed according to the present in- .vention, a hood or cowling provided at the nose of the car being shown broken away so as to illustrate the tubular passage through which the light from the head lamp is projected.

Figure 2 is a front view of the vehicle showing on the left-hand side the aforesaid hood or cowling in the raised position, and on the righthand side the said hood or cowling in its normal lowered position.

Figure 3 is a side elevation of the front of the vehicle with thehood or cowling in the lower position. 34, 34, are head lamps which are situated at the inner end of a tube or passage 35 formed in a hood or cowling portion 36 which is pivotally attached to the front of the car at the point 3'1. One side of the outer end of each tube or passage 35 is cut away laterally, and the hood or cowling contiguous to the outer end of the passage 35 is also cut away laterally so as to provide an opening through which the light from each head lamp 34 is projected, not only forwardly, but laterally, thus enabling sign posts etc. on the road to be read more easily than heretofore. The aforesaid opening in the hood 35 or cowling portion 36 is provided with a glazed portion 35a. In order to obtain access to the lamps 34, 34, the hood or cowling portion 36 can be raised into the positionshown on the left-hand side of Figure 2.

40 The invention is shown applied to a motor road vehicle of the kind in which the driving unit is located at the rear of the vehicle in the vicinity of the axis of the rear wheels, a vehicle of this type being shown in my United States applica tion No. 384,946 filed August 10, 1929, now Patent No. 1,903,693 issued April 11, 1933, of which this application is a division. The space beneath the hood or cowling 36 may be employed for the accommodation of a spare wheel. 30 is the wind screen and 22 one of the side windows of the car.

By the terms hood or cowling is meant generally that portion of the vehicle body forward of the windshield.

I claim: 1. In a motor road vehicle comprising a streamlined front hood or cowling having side walls convergent toward the front of the vehicle, the combination of forwardly faced headlamps disposed entirely within the hood or cowling on opposite sides of the longitudinal center line of the latter, said convergent side walls being provided with openings in front of the headlamps through which the beams of the latter are projected, a substantially tubular element extending between each lamp and its associatedopen- 05 ing, and light transmitting plates closing said openings and substantially preserving the streamline contours of said side walls.

2. In a motor road vehicle, a body having a hinged hood or cowling portion at its front end, forwardly facing transversely spaced head lamps fixed within said body and spaced rearwardly from the wall of the hood or cowling, tubular reflecting elements extending forwardly from said headlamps to the wall of the hood or cowling, openings in the wall of said hood or cowling which register with the forward ends of said tubular elements when the hood or cowling is in wall of the body at the front end, openings in the side walls of said front end which register with the forward ends of said tubular elements, and light transmitting coverings for said openings flush with and conforming to the contours of the walls of said body at the front end.

. CHARLES DENNISTON ZBURNEY. 

